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Title: Image-domain multi-material decomposition for dual-energy CT based on correlation and sparsity of material images, Abstract: Dual energy CT (DECT) enhances tissue characterization because it can produce images of basis materials such as soft-tissue and bone. DECT is of great interest in applications to medical i...
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Title: A tutorial on the synthesis and validation of a closed-loop wind farm controller using a steady-state surrogate model, Abstract: In wind farms, wake interaction leads to losses in power capture and accelerated structural degradation when compared to freestanding turbines. One method to reduce wake losses is by m...
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Title: UCB Exploration via Q-Ensembles, Abstract: We show how an ensemble of $Q^*$-functions can be leveraged for more effective exploration in deep reinforcement learning. We build on well established algorithms from the bandit setting, and adapt them to the $Q$-learning setting. We propose an exploration strategy bas...
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Title: Towards a Deep Improviser: a prototype deep learning post-tonal free music generator, Abstract: Two modest-sized symbolic corpora of post-tonal and post-metric keyboard music have been constructed, one algorithmic, the other improvised. Deep learning models of each have been trained and largely optimised. Our pu...
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Title: Depicting urban boundaries from a mobility network of spatial interactions: A case study of Great Britain with geo-located Twitter data, Abstract: Existing urban boundaries are usually defined by government agencies for administrative, economic, and political purposes. Defining urban boundaries that consider soc...
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Title: Avoiding a Tragedy of the Commons in the Peer Review Process, Abstract: Peer review is the foundation of scientific publication, and the task of reviewing has long been seen as a cornerstone of professional service. However, the massive growth in the field of machine learning has put this community benefit under...
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Title: Partially Recursive Acceptance Rejection, Abstract: Generating random variates from high-dimensional distributions is often done approximately using Markov chain Monte Carlo. In certain cases, perfect simulation algorithms exist that allow one to draw exactly from the stationary distribution, but most require $O...
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Title: Reifenberg Flatness and Oscillation of the Unit Normal Vector, Abstract: We show (under mild topological assumptions) that small oscillation of the unit normal vector implies Reifenberg flatness. We then apply this observation to the study of chord-arc domains and to a quantitative version of a two-phase free bo...
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Title: Stability and optimality of distributed secondary frequency control schemes in power networks, Abstract: We present a systematic method for designing distributed generation and demand control schemes for secondary frequency regulation in power networks such that stability and an economically optimal power alloca...
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Title: A Conjoint Application of Data Mining Techniques for Analysis of Global Terrorist Attacks -- Prevention and Prediction for Combating Terrorism, Abstract: Terrorism has become one of the most tedious problems to deal with and a prominent threat to mankind. To enhance counter-terrorism, several research works are ...
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Title: OVI 6830Å Imaging Polarimetry of Symbiotic Stars, Abstract: I present here the first results from an ongoing pilot project with the 1.6 m telescope at the OPD, Brasil, aimed at the detection of the OVI $\lambda$6830 line via linear polarization in symbiotic stars. The main goal is to demonstrate that OVI imaging...
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Title: MMGAN: Manifold Matching Generative Adversarial Network, Abstract: It is well-known that GANs are difficult to train, and several different techniques have been proposed in order to stabilize their training. In this paper, we propose a novel training method called manifold-matching, and a new GAN model called ma...
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Title: Domain Adaptation for Infection Prediction from Symptoms Based on Data from Different Study Designs and Contexts, Abstract: Acute respiratory infections have epidemic and pandemic potential and thus are being studied worldwide, albeit in many different contexts and study formats. Predicting infection from sympto...
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Title: Constrained empirical Bayes priors on regression coefficients, Abstract: Under model uncertainty, empirical Bayes (EB) procedures can have undesirable properties such as extreme estimates of inclusion probabilities (Scott & Berger, 2010) or inconsistency under the null model (Liang et al., 2008). To avoid these ...
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Title: A finite field analogue for Appell series F_3, Abstract: In this paper we introduce a finite field analogue for the Appell series F_3 and give some reduction formulae and certain generating functions for this function over finite fields.
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Title: Two-way Two-tape Automata, Abstract: In this article we consider two-way two-tape (alternating) automata accepting pairs of words and we study some closure properties of this model. Our main result is that such alternating automata are not closed under complementation for non-unary alphabets. This improves a sim...
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Title: Making 360$^{\circ}$ Video Watchable in 2D: Learning Videography for Click Free Viewing, Abstract: 360$^{\circ}$ video requires human viewers to actively control "where" to look while watching the video. Although it provides a more immersive experience of the visual content, it also introduces additional burden ...
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Title: Zero-Shot Learning by Generating Pseudo Feature Representations, Abstract: Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a challenging task aiming at recognizing novel classes without any training instances. In this paper we present a simple but high-performance ZSL approach by generating pseudo feature representations (GPFR). Gi...
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Title: Hierarchical RNN with Static Sentence-Level Attention for Text-Based Speaker Change Detection, Abstract: Speaker change detection (SCD) is an important task in dialog modeling. Our paper addresses the problem of text-based SCD, which differs from existing audio-based studies and is useful in various scenarios, f...
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Title: Bivariate Discrete Generalized Exponential Distribution, Abstract: In this paper we develop a bivariate discrete generalized exponential distribution, whose marginals are discrete generalized exponential distribution as proposed by Nekoukhou, Alamatsaz and Bidram ("Discrete generalized exponential distribution o...
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Title: Optimization of Ensemble Supervised Learning Algorithms for Increased Sensitivity, Specificity, and AUC of Population-Based Colorectal Cancer Screenings, Abstract: Over 150,000 new people in the United States are diagnosed with colorectal cancer each year. Nearly a third die from it (American Cancer Society). Th...
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Title: More or Less? Predict the Social Influence of Malicious URLs on Social Media, Abstract: Users of Online Social Networks (OSNs) interact with each other more than ever. In the context of a public discussion group, people receive, read, and write comments in response to articles and postings. In the absence of acc...
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Title: Path-Following through Control Funnel Functions, Abstract: We present an approach to path following using so-called control funnel functions. Synthesizing controllers to "robustly" follow a reference trajectory is a fundamental problem for autonomous vehicles. Robustness, in this context, requires our controller...
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Title: Tunable Anomalous Andreev Reflection and Triplet Pairings in Spin Orbit Coupled Graphene, Abstract: We theoretically study scattering process and superconducting triplet correlations in a graphene junction comprised of ferromagnet-RSO-superconductor in which RSO stands for a region with Rashba spin orbit interac...
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Title: Conditional Model Selection in Mixed-Effects Models with cAIC4, Abstract: Model selection in mixed models based on the conditional distribution is appropriate for many practical applications and has been a focus of recent statistical research. In this paper we introduce the R-package cAIC4 that allows for the co...
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Title: Inequalities for the lowest magnetic Neumann eigenvalue, Abstract: We study the ground state energy of the Neumann magnetic Laplacian on planar domains. For a constant magnetic field we consider the question whether, under an assumption of fixed area, the disc maximizes this eigenvalue. More generally, we discus...
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Title: Automated optimization of large quantum circuits with continuous parameters, Abstract: We develop and implement automated methods for optimizing quantum circuits of the size and type expected in quantum computations that outperform classical computers. We show how to handle continuous gate parameters and report ...
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Title: Testing the simplifying assumption in high-dimensional vine copulas, Abstract: Testing the simplifying assumption in high-dimensional vine copulas is a difficult task because tests must be based on estimated observations and amount to checking constraints on high-dimensional distributions. So far, corresponding ...
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Title: TSP With Locational Uncertainty: The Adversarial Model, Abstract: In this paper we study a natural special case of the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) with point-locational-uncertainty which we will call the {\em adversarial TSP} problem (ATSP). Given a metric space $(X, d)$ and a set of subsets $R = \{R_1, R_2...
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Title: Exact solutions to three-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equations with varying potential and nonlinearities, Abstract: It is shown that using the similarity transformations, a set of three-dimensional p-q nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equations with inhomogeneous coefficients can be reduced to one-d...
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Title: A Study of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation, Abstract: Recent studies have shown that reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective approach for improving the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) system. However, due to its instability, successfully RL training is challenging, espec...
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Title: Weighted Data Normalization Based on Eigenvalues for Artificial Neural Network Classification, Abstract: Artificial neural network (ANN) is a very useful tool in solving learning problems. Boosting the performances of ANN can be mainly concluded from two aspects: optimizing the architecture of ANN and normalizin...
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Title: Maximum likelihood estimation of determinantal point processes, Abstract: Determinantal point processes (DPPs) have wide-ranging applications in machine learning, where they are used to enforce the notion of diversity in subset selection problems. Many estimators have been proposed, but surprisingly the basic pr...
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Title: Orthogonal Machine Learning: Power and Limitations, Abstract: Double machine learning provides $\sqrt{n}$-consistent estimates of parameters of interest even when high-dimensional or nonparametric nuisance parameters are estimated at an $n^{-1/4}$ rate. The key is to employ Neyman-orthogonal moment equations whi...
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Title: Numerical investigation of supersonic shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction in transitional and turbulent regime, Abstract: We perform direct numerical simulations of shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions (SBLI) at Mach number M = 1.7 to investigate the influence of the state of the incoming boundary layer on t...
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Title: Privacy and Fairness in Recommender Systems via Adversarial Training of User Representations, Abstract: Latent factor models for recommender systems represent users and items as low dimensional vectors. Privacy risks of such systems have previously been studied mostly in the context of recovery of personal infor...
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Title: Asymptotics for high-dimensional covariance matrices and quadratic forms with applications to the trace functional and shrinkage, Abstract: We establish large sample approximations for an arbitray number of bilinear forms of the sample variance-covariance matrix of a high-dimensional vector time series using $ \...
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Title: Bayesian Paragraph Vectors, Abstract: Word2vec (Mikolov et al., 2013) has proven to be successful in natural language processing by capturing the semantic relationships between different words. Built on top of single-word embeddings, paragraph vectors (Le and Mikolov, 2014) find fixed-length representations for ...
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Title: Subset Synchronization in Monotonic Automata, Abstract: We study extremal and algorithmic questions of subset and careful synchronization in monotonic automata. We show that several synchronization problems that are hard in general automata can be solved in polynomial time in monotonic automata, even without kno...
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Title: Architecture of Text Mining Application in Analyzing Public Sentiments of West Java Governor Election using Naive Bayes Classification, Abstract: The selection of West Java governor is one event that seizes the attention of the public is no exception to social media users. Public opinion on a prospective regiona...
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Title: Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications, Abstract: The next generation of AI applications will continuously interact with the environment and learn from these interactions. These applications impose new and demanding systems requirements, both in terms of performance and flexibility. In this pa...
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Title: A blockchain-based Decentralized System for proper handling of temporary Employment contracts, Abstract: Temporary work is an employment situation useful and suitable in all occasions in which business needs to adjust more easily and quickly to workload fluctuations or maintain staffing flexibility. Temporary wo...
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Title: Valley polarized relaxation and upconversion luminescence from Tamm-Plasmon Trion-Polaritons with a MoSe2 monolayer, Abstract: Transition metal dichalcogenides represent an ideal testbed to study excitonic effects, spin-related phenomena and fundamental light-matter coupling in nanoscopic condensed matter system...
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Title: Machine learning based localization and classification with atomic magnetometers, Abstract: We demonstrate identification of position, material, orientation and shape of objects imaged by an $^{85}$Rb atomic magnetometer performing electromagnetic induction imaging supported by machine learning. Machine learning...
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Title: On the difficulty of finding spines, Abstract: We prove that the set of symplectic lattices in the Siegel space $\mathfrak{h}_g$ whose systoles generate a subspace of dimension at least 3 in $\mathbb{R}^{2g}$ does not contain any $\mathrm{Sp}(2g,\mathbb{Z})$-equivariant deformation retract of $\mathfrak{h}_g$.
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Title: Distributed Decoding of Convolutional Network Error Correction Codes, Abstract: A Viterbi-like decoding algorithm is proposed in this paper for generalized convolutional network error correction coding. Different from classical Viterbi algorithm, our decoding algorithm is based on minimum error weight rather tha...
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Title: Temperature induced phase transition from cycloidal to collinear antiferromagnetism in multiferroic Bi$_{0.9}$Sm$_{0.1}$FeO$_3$ driven by $f$-$d$ induced magnetic anisotropy, Abstract: In multiferroic BiFeO$_3$ a cycloidal antiferromagnetic structure is coupled to a large electric polarization at room temperatur...
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Title: POSEYDON - Converting the DAFNE Collider into a double Positron Facility: a High Duty-Cycle pulse stretcher and a storage ring, Abstract: This project proposes to reuse the DAFNE accelerator complex for producing a high intensity (up to 10^10), high-quality beam of high-energy (up to 500 MeV) positrons for HEP e...
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Title: Phase diagram of hydrogen and a hydrogen-helium mixture at planetary conditions by Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, Abstract: Understanding planetary interiors is directly linked to our ability of simulating exotic quantum mechanical systems such as hydrogen (H) and hydrogen-helium (H-He) mixtures at high pressu...
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Title: Identifying exogenous and endogenous activity in social media, Abstract: The occurrence of new events in a system is typically driven by external causes and by previous events taking place inside the system. This is a general statement, applying to a range of situations including, more recently, to the activity ...
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Title: Water flow in Carbon and Silicon Carbide nanotubes, Abstract: In this work the conduction of ion-water solution through two discrete bundles of armchair carbon and silicon carbide nanotubes, as useful membranes for water desalination, is studied. In order that studies on different types of nanotubes be comparabl...
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Title: Multidimensional extremal dependence coefficients, Abstract: Extreme values modeling has attracting the attention of researchers in diverse areas such as the environment, engineering, or finance. Multivariate extreme value distributions are particularly suitable to model the tails of multidimensional phenomena. ...
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Title: A general framework for data-driven uncertainty quantification under complex input dependencies using vine copulas, Abstract: Systems subject to uncertain inputs produce uncertain responses. Uncertainty quantification (UQ) deals with the estimation of statistics of the system response, given a computational mode...
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Title: Pachinko Prediction: A Bayesian method for event prediction from social media data, Abstract: The combination of large open data sources with machine learning approaches presents a potentially powerful way to predict events such as protest or social unrest. However, accounting for uncertainty in such models, par...
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Title: A Digital Hardware Fast Algorithm and FPGA-based Prototype for a Novel 16-point Approximate DCT for Image Compression Applications, Abstract: The discrete cosine transform (DCT) is the key step in many image and video coding standards. The 8-point DCT is an important special case, possessing several low-complexi...
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Title: Resurrecting the sigmoid in deep learning through dynamical isometry: theory and practice, Abstract: It is well known that the initialization of weights in deep neural networks can have a dramatic impact on learning speed. For example, ensuring the mean squared singular value of a network's input-output Jacobian...
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Title: Singular perturbation for abstract elliptic equations and application, Abstract: Boundary value problem for complete second order elliptic equation is considered in Banach space. The equation and boundary conditions involve a small and spectral parameter. The uniform L_{p}-regularity properties with respect to s...
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Title: Pruning and Nonparametric Multiple Change Point Detection, Abstract: Change point analysis is a statistical tool to identify homogeneity within time series data. We propose a pruning approach for approximate nonparametric estimation of multiple change points. This general purpose change point detection procedure...
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Title: Context encoding enables machine learning-based quantitative photoacoustics, Abstract: Real-time monitoring of functional tissue parameters, such as local blood oxygenation, based on optical imaging could provide groundbreaking advances in the diagnosis and interventional therapy of various diseases. While photo...
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Title: Simulating the interaction between a falling super-quadric object and a soap film, Abstract: The interaction that occurs between a light solid object and a horizontal soap film of a bamboo foam contained in a cylindrical tube is simulated in 3D. We vary the shape of the falling object from a sphere to a cube by ...
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Title: Power Flow Analysis Using Graph based Combination of Iterative Methods and Vertex Contraction Approach, Abstract: Compared with relational database (RDB), graph database (GDB) is a more intuitive expression of the real world. Each node in the GDB is a both storage and logic unit. Since it is connected to its nei...
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Title: A GAMP Based Low Complexity Sparse Bayesian Learning Algorithm, Abstract: In this paper, we present an algorithm for the sparse signal recovery problem that incorporates damped Gaussian generalized approximate message passing (GGAMP) into Expectation-Maximization (EM)-based sparse Bayesian learning (SBL). In par...
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Title: Sub-Nanometer Channels Embedded in Two-Dimensional Materials, Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) materials are among the most promising candidates for next-generation electronics due to their atomic thinness, allowing for flexible transparent electronics and ultimate length scaling. Thus far, atomically-thin p-n jun...
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Title: Emotion in Reinforcement Learning Agents and Robots: A Survey, Abstract: This article provides the first survey of computational models of emotion in reinforcement learning (RL) agents. The survey focuses on agent/robot emotions, and mostly ignores human user emotions. Emotions are recognized as functional in de...
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Title: Tensor Networks in a Nutshell, Abstract: Tensor network methods are taking a central role in modern quantum physics and beyond. They can provide an efficient approximation to certain classes of quantum states, and the associated graphical language makes it easy to describe and pictorially reason about quantum ci...
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Title: Cheryl's Birthday, Abstract: We present four logic puzzles and after that their solutions. Joseph Yeo designed 'Cheryl's Birthday'. Mike Hartley came up with a novel solution for 'One Hundred Prisoners and a Light Bulb'. Jonathan Welton designed 'A Blind Guess' and 'Abby's Birthday'. Hans van Ditmarsch and Barte...
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Title: Never Forget: Balancing Exploration and Exploitation via Learning Optical Flow, Abstract: Exploration bonus derived from the novelty of the states in an environment has become a popular approach to motivate exploration for deep reinforcement learning agents in the past few years. Recent methods such as curiosity...
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Title: Lenient Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning, Abstract: Much of the success of single agent deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in recent years can be attributed to the use of experience replay memories (ERM), which allow Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) to be trained efficiently through sampling stored state transitions...
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Title: A New Framework for Synthetic Aperture Sonar Micronavigation, Abstract: Synthetic aperture imaging systems achieve constant azimuth resolution by coherently summating the observations acquired along the aperture path. At this aim, their locations have to be known with subwavelength accuracy. In underwater Synthe...
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Title: Emotionalism within People-Oriented Software Design, Abstract: In designing most software applications, much effort is placed upon the functional goals, which make a software system useful. However, the failure to consider emotional goals, which make a software system pleasurable to use, can result in disappoint...
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Title: Quantifying the Estimation Error of Principal Components, Abstract: Principal component analysis is an important pattern recognition and dimensionality reduction tool in many applications. Principal components are computed as eigenvectors of a maximum likelihood covariance $\widehat{\Sigma}$ that approximates a ...
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Title: On Convex Programming Relaxations for the Permanent, Abstract: In recent years, several convex programming relaxations have been proposed to estimate the permanent of a non-negative matrix, notably in the works of Gurvits and Samorodnitsky. However, the origins of these relaxations and their relationships to eac...
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Title: Many cubic surfaces contain rational points, Abstract: Building on recent work of Bhargava--Elkies--Schnidman and Kriz--Li, we produce infinitely many smooth cubic surfaces defined over the field of rational numbers that contain rational points.
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Title: Representation learning of drug and disease terms for drug repositioning, Abstract: Drug repositioning (DR) refers to identification of novel indications for the approved drugs. The requirement of huge investment of time as well as money and risk of failure in clinical trials have led to surge in interest in dru...
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Title: Analysis of a remarkable singularity in a nonlinear DDE, Abstract: In this work we investigate the dynamics of the nonlinear DDE (delay-differential equation) x''(t)+x(t-T)+x(t)^3=0 where T is the delay. For T=0 this system is conservative and exhibits no limit cycles. For T>0, no matter how small, an infinite n...
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Title: Characterization of Lipschitz functions in terms of variable exponent Lebesgue spaces, Abstract: Our aim is to characterize the Lipschitz functions by variable exponent Lebesgue spaces. We give some characterizations of the boundedness of the maximal or nonlinear commutators of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal funct...
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Title: Superconductivity Induced by Interfacial Coupling to Magnons, Abstract: We consider a thin normal metal sandwiched between two ferromagnetic insulators. At the interfaces, the exchange coupling causes electrons within the metal to interact with magnons in the insulators. This electron-magnon interaction induces ...
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Title: Privacy Assessment of De-identified Opal Data: A report for Transport for NSW, Abstract: We consider the privacy implications of public release of a de-identified dataset of Opal card transactions. The data was recently published at this https URL. It consists of tap-on and tap-off counts for NSW's four modes of...
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Title: On the Importance of Correlations in Rational Choice: A Case for Non-Nashian Game Theory, Abstract: The Nash equilibrium paradigm, and Rational Choice Theory in general, rely on agents acting independently from each other. This note shows how this assumption is crucial in the definition of Rational Choice Theory...
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Title: Reliable estimation of prediction uncertainty for physico-chemical property models, Abstract: The predictions of parameteric property models and their uncertainties are sensitive to systematic errors such as inconsistent reference data, parametric model assumptions, or inadequate computational methods. Here, we ...
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Title: Rethinking Split Manufacturing: An Information-Theoretic Approach with Secure Layout Techniques, Abstract: Split manufacturing is a promising technique to defend against fab-based malicious activities such as IP piracy, overbuilding, and insertion of hardware Trojans. However, a network flow-based proximity atta...
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Title: Unsupervised robotic sorting: Towards autonomous decision making robots, Abstract: Autonomous sorting is a crucial task in industrial robotics which can be very challenging depending on the expected amount of automation. Usually, to decide where to sort an object, the system needs to solve either an instance ret...
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Title: Beyond Whittle: Nonparametric correction of a parametric likelihood with a focus on Bayesian time series analysis, Abstract: The Whittle likelihood is widely used for Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the spectral density of stationary time series. However, the loss of efficiency for non-Gaussian time series ...
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Title: A consistent approach to unstructured mesh generation for geophysical models, Abstract: Geophysical model domains typically contain irregular, complex fractal-like boundaries and physical processes that act over a wide range of scales. Constructing geographically constrained boundary-conforming spatial discretiz...
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Title: Metric Map Merging using RFID Tags & Topological Information, Abstract: A map merging component is crucial for the proper functionality of a multi-robot system performing exploration, since it provides the means to integrate and distribute the most important information carried by the agents: the explored-covere...
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Title: Learning Local Feature Aggregation Functions with Backpropagation, Abstract: This paper introduces a family of local feature aggregation functions and a novel method to estimate their parameters, such that they generate optimal representations for classification (or any task that can be expressed as a cost funct...
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Title: Sub-harmonic Injection Locking in Metronomes, Abstract: In this paper, we demonstrate sub-harmonic injection locking (SHIL) in mechanical metronomes. To do so, we first formulate metronome's physical compact model, focusing on its nonlinear terms for friction and the escapement mechanism. Then we analyze metrono...
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Title: Spin Seebeck effect in a polar antiferromagnet $α$-Cu$_{2}$V$_{2}$O$_{7}$, Abstract: We have studied the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect in a polar antiferromagnet $\alpha$-Cu$_{2}$V$_{2}$O$_{7}$ in contact with a Pt film. Below the antiferromagnetic transition temperature of $\alpha$-Cu$_{2}$V$_{2}$O$_{7}$, sp...
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Title: Mackey algebras which are Gorenstein, Abstract: We complete the picture available in the literature by showing that the integral Mackey algebra is Gorenstein if and only if the group order is square-free, in which case it must have Gorenstein dimension one. We illustrate this result by looking in details at the ...
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Title: Efficient acquisition rules for model-based approximate Bayesian computation, Abstract: Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is a method for Bayesian inference when the likelihood is unavailable but simulating from the model is possible. However, many ABC algorithms require a large number of simulations, which...
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Title: Active Learning for Regression Using Greedy Sampling, Abstract: Regression problems are pervasive in real-world applications. Generally a substantial amount of labeled samples are needed to build a regression model with good generalization ability. However, many times it is relatively easy to collect a large num...
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Title: Centroid estimation based on symmetric KL divergence for Multinomial text classification problem, Abstract: We define a new method to estimate centroid for text classification based on the symmetric KL-divergence between the distribution of words in training documents and their class centroids. Experiments on se...
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Title: Rapid Near-Neighbor Interaction of High-dimensional Data via Hierarchical Clustering, Abstract: Calculation of near-neighbor interactions among high dimensional, irregularly distributed data points is a fundamental task to many graph-based or kernel-based machine learning algorithms and applications. Such calcul...
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Title: Evolution and Recent Developments of the Gaseous Photon Detectors Technologies, Abstract: The evolution and the present status of the gaseous photon detectors technologies are reviewed. The most recent developments in several branches of the field are described, in particular the installation and commissioning o...
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Title: Superconducting Qubit-Resonator-Atom Hybrid System, Abstract: We propose a hybrid quantum system, where an $LC$ resonator inductively interacts with a flux qubit and is capacitively coupled to a Rydberg atom. Varying the external magnetic flux bias controls the flux-qubit flipping and the flux qubit-resonator in...
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Title: Heroes and Zeroes: Predicting the Impact of New Video Games on Twitch.tv, Abstract: Video games and the playing thereof have been a fixture of American culture since their introduction in the arcades of the 1980s. However, it was not until the recent proliferation of broadband connections robust and fast enough ...
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Title: Variational Autoencoders for Learning Latent Representations of Speech Emotion: A Preliminary Study, Abstract: Learning the latent representation of data in unsupervised fashion is a very interesting process that provides relevant features for enhancing the performance of a classifier. For speech emotion recogni...
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Title: Insense: Incoherent Sensor Selection for Sparse Signals, Abstract: Sensor selection refers to the problem of intelligently selecting a small subset of a collection of available sensors to reduce the sensing cost while preserving signal acquisition performance. The majority of sensor selection algorithms find the...
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Title: Discrete Distribution for a Wiener Process Range and its Properties, Abstract: We introduce the discrete distribution of a Wiener process range. Rather than finding some basic distributional properties including hazard rate function, moments, Stress-strength parameter and order statistics of this distribution, t...
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Title: Coherent control of flexural vibrations in dual-nanoweb fibers using phase-modulated two-frequency light, Abstract: Coherent control of the resonant response in spatially extended optomechanical structures is complicated by the fact that the optical drive is affected by the back-action from the generated phonons...
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